Comments on: AT&T to bundle broadband and cellular service http://www.muniwireless.com/2007/01/02/atandt-to-bundle-broadband-and-cellular-service/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=atandt-to-bundle-broadband-and-cellular-service Citywide WiFi, smart grid, enterprise wireless, public safety, mobile apps Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Esme Vos http://www.muniwireless.com/2007/01/02/atandt-to-bundle-broadband-and-cellular-service/#comment-7166 Esme Vos Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:55:20 +0000 http://muniwireless.sandboxdev.com/?p=5494#comment-7166 <p>Steve,</p> <p>The French operators - Iliad/Free, France Telecom and Neuf/Cegetel - offer a similar service where you can use your VOIP/Wi-Fi home phone to make voice calls (but via their Wi-Fi/DSL walled garden service).</p> <p>France Telecom goes one step further because it owns Wanadoo, a large ISP and Orange, a mobile phone operator. France Telecom bundles wired DSL (via Wanadoo) and cellular phone service (through Orange). Orange in the Netherlands has been offering 30 EUR per month DSL+landline VOIP.</p> <p>What's interesting is that Iliad/Free expressed interest in buying the last cellular license in France. Note that Iliad/Free already has a nationwide WiMAX license in France, and has announced plans to roll out FTTH in several French cities, starting with Paris, where they recently bought Paris-based CiteFibre (an FTTH company).</p> <p>There is much more competition in the wired and wireless (cellular) markets here in Europe. I think the AT&T merger is not good for competition in the US and am surprised to see that it got FCC approval. I do not believe that the "net neutrality concessions" made by AT&T will do anything to bring real competition in the market for high-speed broadband and mobile phone service.</p> Steve,

The French operators – Iliad/Free, France Telecom and Neuf/Cegetel – offer a similar service where you can use your VOIP/Wi-Fi home phone to make voice calls (but via their Wi-Fi/DSL walled garden service).

France Telecom goes one step further because it owns Wanadoo, a large ISP and Orange, a mobile phone operator. France Telecom bundles wired DSL (via Wanadoo) and cellular phone service (through Orange). Orange in the Netherlands has been offering 30 EUR per month DSL+landline VOIP.

What’s interesting is that Iliad/Free expressed interest in buying the last cellular license in France. Note that Iliad/Free already has a nationwide WiMAX license in France, and has announced plans to roll out FTTH in several French cities, starting with Paris, where they recently bought Paris-based CiteFibre (an FTTH company).

There is much more competition in the wired and wireless (cellular) markets here in Europe. I think the AT&T merger is not good for competition in the US and am surprised to see that it got FCC approval. I do not believe that the “net neutrality concessions” made by AT&T will do anything to bring real competition in the market for high-speed broadband and mobile phone service.

]]> By: steve http://www.muniwireless.com/2007/01/02/atandt-to-bundle-broadband-and-cellular-service/#comment-7165 steve Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:17:11 +0000 http://muniwireless.sandboxdev.com/?p=5494#comment-7165 <p>My understanding is the wifi/cell phones being considered home to a particular wifi box in the home. If you can't reach the local cell tower in your home (not uncommon in the US), you can reach the wifi box and then voip to your voip plan through that provider. You can't use the phone for arbitrary voip calls to random wifi hotspots.</p> <p>more walled garden...</p> My understanding is the wifi/cell phones being considered home to a particular wifi box in the home. If you can’t reach the local cell tower in your home (not uncommon in the US), you can reach the wifi box and then voip to your voip plan through that provider. You can’t use the phone for arbitrary voip calls to random wifi hotspots.

more walled garden…

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